AGILE August 4-8, 2008 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Conference presented by Agile Alliance

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1 AGILE 2008 August 4-8, 2008 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Conference presented by Agile Alliance Editors Grigori Melnik, Philippe Kruchten, and Mary Poppendieck Event Sponsors Title Sponsors VersionOne Rally Software Platinum Sponsors Green Pepper / Pyxis Technologies ThoughtWorks Studios Borland Software Corporation Gold Sponsors Microsoft Corporation Fabasoft Distribution GmbH AccuRev Berteig Consulting Command Information Danube Technologies, Inc. DSDM Consortium Electric Cloud Enthiosys Esther Derby Associates, Inc. FutureWorks Consulting LLC Green Pepper / Pyxis Technologies IBM Improving Enterprises Industrial Logic Intelliware Development, Inc. Additional Sponsors LitheSpeed.com NetObjectives OutSystems, Inc. Pillar Technology Poppendieck LLC Quality Tree Software SmartEdge LLC SolutionsIQ, Inc. Sphere of Influence SQE Training Tacit Knowledge, LLC Wipro Technologies X2A Consulting / DR AGILE.com Los Alamitos, California Washington Tokyo

2 Table of Contents Agile 2008 Introduction from the Program Chairs...xi Organizing Committee...xii Research Papers Agile Orientation and Psychological Needs, Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Support: A Two Job-Level Comparison...3 Tali Seger, Orit Hazzan, and Ronen Bar-Nahor Scrum in a Multiproject Environment: An Ethnographically-Inspired Case Study on the Adoption Challenges...15 Artem Marchenko and Pekka Abrahamsson Automated Acceptance Testing: A Literature Review and an Industrial Case Study...27 Børge Haugset and Geir Kjetil Hanssen Stories, Sketches, and Lists: Developers and Interaction Designers Interacting Through Artefacts...39 Judith Brown, Gitte Lindgaard, and Robert Biddle Utilizing Digital Tabletops in Collocated Agile Planning Meetings...51 Yaser Ghanam, Xin Wang, and Frank Maurer Agile Methods and User-Centered Design: How These Two Methodologies are Being Successfully Integrated in Industry...63 David Fox, Jonathan Sillito, and Frank Maurer Handling Uncertainty in Agile Requirement Prioritization and Scheduling Using Statistical Simulation...73 Kevin Logue and Kevin McDaid A Preliminary Roadmap for Empirical Research on Agile Software Development...83 Torgeir Dingsøyr, Tore Dybå, and Pekka Abrahamsson v

3 Experience Reports Agile & Organizational Culture Moving from Waterfall to Agile...97 Kalpana Sureshchandra and Jagadish Shrinivasavadhani Tidal Wave: The Games Transformation Mun-Wai Chung, Sofyan Nugroho, and John Francis JF Unson Forming to Performing: Transitioning Large-Scale Project into Agile Eric C. Lee Its Not the Pants, its the People in the Pants Learnings from the Gap Agile Transformation What Worked, How We Did it, and What Still Puzzles Us David Goodman and Michael Elbaz Crawl, Walk, Run: 4 Years of Agile Adoption at BabyCenter.com Keith Nottonson and Ken DeLong Scaling Agile: Finding your Agile Tribe Erik Moore and John Spens The Price of Agile is Eternal Vigilance Joseph J. Ryan, Jr. and Robert Scudiere Come Together, Right Now How the Songs of The Beatles Helped our Product Owners and Teams Live in Harmony Anne M. Moon MyBoeingFleet and Agile Software Development Joseph Fecarotta SOX Compliant Agile Processes Sumit Gupta Creating Agile Streams for Business & Technical Value Zachary Hunter and David Spann The Big Projects Always Fail: Taking an Enterprise Agile Roger Valade An Ericsson Example of Enterprise Class Agility Jasper Goos and Alfo Melisse Agile Supports Improved Culture and Quality for Healthwise Ken Long and David Starr Executing Agile in a Structured Organization: Government Janette Scott, Robyn Johnson, and Michael McCullough The Accidental Agilists: One Teams Journey from Waterfall to Agile Mary Beth Snapp and Diane Dagefoerde Planning and Facilitating Release Retrospectives Michael Maham The FrAgile Organisation Marcus Evans Integrating Software by Integrating People Todd Little Integrating Scrum with the Process Framework at Yahoo! Europe Karl Scotland and Alexandre Boutin vi

4 Breaking Acts The Doctor is In Using the Office Hours Concept to Make Limited Resources Most Effective Andrea Leszek and Catherine Courage Agile Infrastructure and Operations: How Infra-gile are You? Patrick Debois Overcoming Brooks Law Kealy Opelt Mature Agile with a Twist of CMMI Carsten Ruseng Jakobsen and Kent Aaron Johnson Agile Development in a Medical Device Company Pieter Adriaan Rottier and Victor Rodrigues Committing to Quality Fast & Predictable A Lightweight Release Framework Promotes Agility through Rhythm and Flow Amy Farrow and Steve Greene Agile Teams Require Agile QA: How to Make it Work, An Experience Report Kealy Opelt and Tracy Beeson Technical lessons Learned Turning the Agile Dials to Eleven! Paul King and Craig Smith Automated Functional Testing on the TransCanada Alberta Gas Accounting Replacement Project Stephen Marsh and Stelios Pantazopoulos Leading Manual Test Efforts with Agile Methods Adam Geras Customers & Business Value Establishing an Agile Portfolio to Align IT Investments with Business Needs Joseph C. Thomas and Steven W. Baker Using Agile for Buy Vs. Build Decisions Mike Register and Tod Golding Experience Report: Extremely Short Iterations as a Catalyst for Effective Prioritization of Work Mishkin Berteig Adventures in Agile Contracting: Evolving from Time and Materials to Fixed Price, Fixed Scope Contracts Teresa Franklin The Product Owner Team Alan de Ste Croix and Alan Easton The Intermediate Customer Anti-Pattern Tom Perry Successful Customer Collaboration Resulting in the Right Product for the End User Sean Cohan vii

5 Developer Jam A Hundred Days of Continuous Integration Ade Miller Team Pace Keeping Build Times Down Graham Brooks Effective and Pragmatic Test Driven Development Andrew Rendell Distributed Agile How Did We Adapt Agile Processes to Our Distributed Development? Cynick Young and Hiroki Terashima Distributed Agile: Growing a Practice Together Michael Vax and Stephen Michaud Yahoo! Distributed Agile: Notes from the World Over Brian Scott Drummond and John Francis JF Unson Remote Mentoring a Distributed Agile Team Jagadish Shrinivasavadhani and Vinod Panicker Practical Considerations for Distributed Agile Projects Jane M. Robarts Insights into an Agile Adventure with Offshore Partners Mark Summers Fully Distributed Scrum: The Secret Sauce for Hyperproductive Offshored Development Teams Jeff Sutherland, Guido Schoonheim, Eelco Rustenburg, and Maurits Rijk Growing and Sustaining an Offshore Scrum Engagement Edward Uy and Nikos Ioannou Incremental Adoption of Scrum for Successful Delivery of an IT Project in a Remote Setup Syed H. Rayhan and Nimat Haque Colossal, Scattered, and Chaotic (Planning with a Large Distributed Team) Wes Williams and Mike Stout The Good and Bad of Agile Offshore Development Mike Cottmeyer Overcoming the Challenges of Building a Distributed Agile Organization Elaine Therrien Leadership & Teams Practices of an Agile Team Fumihiko Kinoshita Agile Project Experiences The Story of Three Little Pigs Craig Smith and Paul King Un-Assessments Reflections by the Team, for the Team William Krebs, Per Kroll, and Edward Richard 7 Years of Agile Management Christ Vriens and René Barto Scaling Up Pushing Scrum out of its Comfort Zone Richard Lyon and Marcus Evans viii

6 Dependency Management in a Large Agile Environment Eric Babinet and Rajani Ramanathan A Product Managers Guide to Surviving the Big Bang Approach to Agile Transitions Rasmus Mencke Overhauling a Failed Project Using Out of the Box Scrum Matthew D. Edwards Agile Project Leadership My Top 10 Value Driven Principles Lynne Ralston Cowboys and Indians: Impacts of Cultural Diversity on Agile Teams Janice Aston, Lionel Laroche, and Gerard Meszaros Experience Report: The Social Nature of Agile Teams Elizabeth Whitworth Bootstrapping Scrum and XP under Crisis A Story from the Trenches Henrik Kniberg and Reza Farhang Learning & Education Eleven Guidelines for Implementing Pair Programming in the Classroom Laurie Williams, D. Scott McCrickard, Lucas Layman, and Khaled Hussein THE LEARNING CIRCLE: An Evolution of Agile for Learning Environments Garry Berteig Coding Dojo: An Environment for Learning and Sharing Agile Practices Danilo Toshiaki Sato, Hugo Corbucci, and Mariana Vivian Bravo An Agile Classroom Experience: Teaching TDD and Refactoring Brandon Carlson Transitioning a Team to Agile Test Methods Susan D. Shaye An Agile Classroom Experience Pat Reed Legacy Systems Agile Architecture IS Possible You First Have to Believe! Mark Isham Agile with Fragile Large Legacy Applications Vandana Shah and Ainsley Nies Tools for Agility Drifting Toward Invisibility: The Transition to the Electronic Task Board Thomas Perry Pushing the Boundaries of Testing and Continuous Integration Fabrizio Cannizzo, Robbie Clutton, and Raghav Ramesh Migrating from SharePoint to a Better Scrum Tool Edward Uy and René Rosendahl Evolution of the Tools and Practices of a Large Distributed Agile Team Fabrizio Cannizzo, Gabriela Marcionetti, and Paul Moser ix

7 User Experience The Design Studio: Interface Design for Agile Teams Jim Ungar An Agile Approach to Proposition Assessment Luke Barrett Two Case Studies of User Experience Design and Agile Development Maryam Najafi and Len Toyoshiba Are You Sure? Really? A Contextual Approach to Agile User Research Josh Evnin and Marjorie Pries Using Persona with XP at LANDesk Software, an Avocent Company David Broschinsky and Lisa Baker Experience Report: Design to Delivery in 7 Weeks Jade Ohlhauser U-SCRUM: An Agile Methodology for Promoting Usability Mona Singh Product Innovation is Practical, Important, and Possible Theresa Smith Author Index x